The latest alignment between Kanu's faction of IPOB and South South region militant Mujahid Dokubo-Asari who founded the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force looks likely to have more propaganda value than utility in boosting forces on the ground (AC Vol 56 No 3 Lots of gunboats little diplomacy)...
But there was a blast from the past at the end of May when Cynthia Whyte once an ally of the former militant kingpin Dokubo Asari raged against the PAP's roster of gangsters and warlords...
Dokubo Asari – one of the rare former rebel leaders to throw his weight behind Jonathan's failed re-election bid in 2015 – chipped in with a warning to Ijaw leaders not to help Buhari fix the next election...
Another veteran militant Mujahid Dokubo-Asari has often been prepared to take on both his own militant counterparts and the government simultaneously but no one has been able to link him to the current round of attacks...
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Many suspect the Avengers which might subcontract technical help for operations is from a younger generation of militants angered by the deals that leaders such as Tompolo and Mujahid Dokubo-Asari made with Jonathan's government...
Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari was leader of the now officially defunct Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF) and in 2003 acted as the then Rivers State Governor Peter Odili's vote-rigger-in-chief alongside Ateke Tom (AC Vol 45 No 15 Delta damages)...
to Mujahid Dokubo-Asari; N560 mn...
Delta-watchers with long memories will recall that the first wave of violence in 2003 began with arms caches being handed over to gang leaders Mujahid Dokubo-Asari and Ateke Tom to rig elections...
The last such manoeuvre when Peter Odili as Rivers State Governor attempted to place Mujahid Dokubo-Asari at the head of an ‘official’ takeover of the IYC produced Asari’s Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force and in turn the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta...
In 2003 the then PDP Governor of Rivers State Peter Odili – who is widely believed to have looted a vast fortune from the state – armed Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari and Ateke Tom to do his bidding...